Google Cultural Institute

Makes important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserves them to educate and inspire future generations. Sources include the British Museum, Yad Vashem, the Museo Galileo in Florence, the Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
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Time Team

Aired on Channel 4 from 1994 to 2014. Each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Tony Robinson explaining the process in layman’s terms. The sites excavated over the show’s run ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War.
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The Museum of the Moving Image

Advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretative programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artefacts.
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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney. Although often described as a science museum, the Powerhouse has a diverse collection encompassing all sorts of technology including Decorative arts, Science, Communication, Transport, Costume, Furniture, Media, Computer technology, Space technology and Steam engines.
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Questacon

At Questacon, we strive to promote greater understanding and awareness of science and technology within the community. We’re committed to making that experience fun, interactive, and relevant.
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United Nations Foundation

The site offers perspectives related to global issues including children’s health, climate and energy, sustainable development, technology and women and population. Tackles issues including climate change, global health, peace and security, women’s empowerment, poverty eradication, energy access, and U.S.-UN relations.
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Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries

The site is divided into sections on business and trade, plants, animals, fisheries, environment, biosecurity and research. The Environment section covers issues such as drought and the Research tab leads to case studies on issues such as food technology. The home page features an ‘alerts’ link about current biosecurity threats, and ‘From the Minister’ highlights other current issues.
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The British Museum: home educators

The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,[3] is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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Cobb and Co Museum (Queensland Museum)

This Museum, physically based in Toowoomba, focuses on historical and cultural aspects of Queensland and Australia. The museum houses over fifty horse-drawn vehicles, including sturdy drays and farm wagons, that tell the story of European settlement on the Darling Downs, while sulkies and buggies demonstrate transportation imported to Australia during the 1880s.
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United Nations

The site provides detailed and current information on specific aspects of UN operations: Peace and Security; International Law; Humanitarian Affairs; Human Rights; and Economic and Social Development.
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Museum of Natural History, Academy of Taxidermy

Animal specimens utilised by educational institutions, marketing companies, video and film production houses, museums, and DEC (Department of Environment and Conservation). Guildford, Greater Perth, Natural History, Stuffed animal mounts
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Dinosaur World

Get up close and personal with the only T-Rex in Australia! Marvel at Protoceratops, the horned dinosaur… plus many more. See some of the tallest & smallest meat-eating dinosaurs. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic & Cretaceous periods of time. Meet Velociraptor made infamous in the movie “Jurassic Park”
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Britannica School

Britannica School is an online, interactive learning resource for pupils and teachers from primary and secondary schools through to undergraduate study. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research, classroom exploration, and curriculum standards.
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The Bible Museum

Located in St Arnaud, a town in regional Victoria, the Bible Museum and Butterfly Garden opened in 2009. Founded by Ellen and Jean Reid, it has a large collection of over 1500 Bibles and related items.
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Web Typography

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by web site designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field.
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Web Style Guide

The Web Style Guide site houses an unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
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UE Using English

A general English language site, specialising in ESL (English as a Second Language) with a wide range of resources for learners and teachers of English, and has been running since the beginning of 2002. Different varieties of English are used; there are contributors from the United States, Canada, Pakistan and non-native speakers, but much of the site uses British English as it was set up in the UK.
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English Grammar 101

Learn more about the English language and improve your writing with our online grammar lessons. Select from any of the modules to start an engaging and easy-to-follow exercise. Extremely comprehensive using pre-tests and teaching sequences.
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Bartleby – Great Books Online

The preeminent Internet publsiher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Included are: Emily Dickinson, Quotations, Lives of the Saints,Poetry Anthologies, Strunk’s Style, Walt Whitman, Bartlett’s Quotations, Robert Frost, Proverbs and Maxims, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud and more
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Daily Writing Tips

Blog featuring simple yet effective tips to improve your writing. Covers Business Writing, Expressions, Freelance Writing, Grammar, Missused Words, Vocabulary, Writing Bascis, Mistakes, Fiction Writing, Punctuation, Style, Word of the Day and much more
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